Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-22
LA VETA,5
HUERFANO COUNTY, COLO
RADIO. :.
Its Delightful Climate, Mineral
Springs, Scenery, Miner
al and Agricultural
Resources.
Especial Correspondence Rural World. J

1t is fact long since established,
that change Of climate is conductive
to health, and that thousands of per-
sons with consumptive tendencies,
scrofulous habits and broken down
nervous systems, have been, as it were,
rejuvinated by emigrating from cold,
wet climate, in a low altitude, to one of
a more dry and higher latitude. As
tonishing it may seem to people living
in the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio
valleys, but, nevertheless true, that a
large percentage of the inhabitants OF
Colorado came into the state, as it were,
invalids. Others came on the recon-
endation of friends that preceded them
to recuperate and enjoy that high state
Of perfect health not possible to enjoy
in cold, damp climate, where, with
the best of care and precaution, the
hoped for age of three score and ten is
but seldom if ever reached. That
such change is warranted, and If not
put off until it is forever too late, can
be substantiated by thousands of per
sons all over the mountainous districts
of Colorado.
The climate of this place, La Neta,
is one of the most equable Of any in
the state. Being situated at an eleva-
ton of I, 900 feet above the level of
the sea, and surrounded as it is by
mountain ranges, the temperature mod
flied by the constant mountain breezes
coming off ranges covered with pcrpet-
ual snow, renders it most delightful
during the summer months. The tenn
perature in winter is modified by noun
tain ranges, SO that the extreme cold
and piercing winds of the plains to the
cast are unknown and unfelt 10y the
people here. The winter fab of snow
is light, and seldom lies on the ground
but few days. A kind of dry, and 81
lent evaporation ticks it UP, and it goes
of in silent, unpretending way, thus
avoiding a cold, damp and chilly at
mosphere that is 80 dreaded by people
having weak lungs and throat troubles.
Within six miles of La Veta have
been discovered some very valuable
mineral springs, whose waters have
been pronounced by experts to contain
great curative properties. Ii the per-
sonal testimony of those that are here
now and have been during the summer,
can be taken as the truth. the waters
have wrought some very remarkable
cures. Skin diseases, stomach, liver
and kidney troubles, are invariably
cured or greatly benefited. Rheuma-
tism seems to succumb to bathing in
the waters, and many happy person
throws aside his crutches and goes his
way a new being, and rejoicing.
An excellent driveway has been
built out to the springs, and nowhere
in all the mountain country can the
health seeker find more delightful
drive, shade by native forest trees and
surrounded by some of the grandest
mountain scenery in the world.
To the south of La Veta about II
miles are the Spanish peaks, two noun
tains towering up 13, 22O and 1890
feet, whose slopes up to timber line
are covered here and there with differ
ent varieties of timber, making most
delightful scene long to be remember
ed. A most remarkable phenomenon
is seen from the taller of the two
peaks. Apparently running from the
center of the mountain are several
walls of rock radiating out therefrom
as the spokes Of a wagon wheel, and
extending for miles and miles in
straight line through mountain and
valley. These walls in many places
are thirty feet in thickness, and tower
upwards three hundred feet 1t is IN
deed puzzle to the geologist as well
as the tourist.
From the Spanish peaks around west
ward the mountains range with delight
full valleys, breaking through to that of
Abeyta Valley, where the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad runs up to Veta
Pass and crosses the Sangre De Cristo
range of mountains. From La Veta
up to the pass 1t is sixteen miles. and
in many places the grade attains 23S
feet to the mile. Once aboard the
train and after a run of eight miles,
the train stops at Ojo, where spring
bursts forth hundreds of feet above ON
the side of Veta mountain, and comes
rushing down in torrents clear, cold
and sparkling like millions of diamonds
in the bright sunlight. On the train